GE Foundation has been a long-time provider of Stamford Public Schools since 2006. The grant amounting to a total of $25.8 million has helped plug a gaping hole in Stamford's education budget, caused by chronic underfunding by the state. Also, the grant enables the city's schools to pursue projects that other districts can pay for with their state funding.
The 2012-13 fiscal year, which begins Sunday, will pump the final $3.8 million of a seven-year, $25.8 million pledge from the Foundation's Developing Futures in Education program.
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Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.